Dr. José Miguel García-Martín, Spanish National Research Council, CSIC, and Institute of Micro and Nanotechnology (Madrid), Spain
Nanostructured columnar thin films by magnetron sputtering: From fundamentals to devices
Dr. José Miguel García-Martín is a research scientist in the Spanish National Research Council, CSIC, and he works at the Institute of Micro and Nanotechnology (Madrid). He is also a co-founder of Nanostine, a spin-off company that fabricates nanoparticles and nanostructured coatings by sputtering. He obtained his PhD in Physics at Universidad Complutense de Madrid in 1999. He then spent about three years at the Solid-State Physics Lab at Paris-Saclay University (France) on an individual Marie Curie postdoctoral fellowship. He joined CSIC in 2003. In 2017 he was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Northeastern University (Boston). Currently, he studies metal and metal-oxide nanostructures with applications in information and communications technology, energy, and biomedicine. He has coordinated several international projects with partners in the U.S.A., France, Greece, Mexico, Chile, Brazil, and Colombia. He led the Nanoimplant project, which in 2014 won the IDEA2Madrid Award, a partnership between the Madrid Government and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 2023 he received the Award of The Royal Spanish Society of Physics (RSEF). In his presentation, García-Martín discusses glancing angle deposition with magnetron sputtering as a user-friendly route to fabricate nanocolumnar thin films (NCTFs) of metals and metal-oxides in large areas of several square centimeters in a single-step process. He also highlights several applications where NCTFs are useful.
